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they were controlled by the cia, not the host governments. the cia had a facility in morocco. that was not a cia-run prison. that was run and controlled by the moroccans. big difference between what the cia was doing and what's happening now. there are examples of governments such as the kenyans, the somalis. you name the government -- holding people. they are probatixies for us. we go and visit them but we are not holding them. >> don't afghan intelligence services, agency, doesn't it have a pretty tight lockdown on country? >> we don't need a black site in afghanistan. they are part of a covert action. when the afghan intelligence service picks up people and takes them to a facility, the cia has an office there. they have people there. they can go. they can visit. but technically, the after gans are holding them. >> did her offered a definition of black sites: >> that's my definition. >> the 9-11 commission report recommended that there be specific guidance on treating foreign prisoners. almost a decade later, have we established a uniform law on ho detainees? the answer is
they were controlled by the cia, not the host governments. the cia had a facility in morocco. that was not a cia-run prison. that was run and controlled by the moroccans. big difference between what the cia was doing and what's happening now. there are examples of governments such as the kenyans, the somalis. you name the government -- holding people. they are probatixies for us. we go and visit them but we are not holding them. >> don't afghan intelligence services, agency, doesn't it...
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the white house knew, the cia knew. we knew at fox news the next day that it wasn't that, and so it's very curious. so you've got the controversy of the cover-up, and you've got all sorts of problems right now. they're stonewalling, but they can't anymore. what's interesting though to me is hillary rodham clinton, right? why didn't she go on the sunday show? probably was because she was told, okay, we want you to tell this lie? she goes, i don't think so. one of these days i'm going to be done giving my $400,000-a-pop speeches, and i'm going to run for president, so i can't do that lie. >> kirsten, we were speaking earlier before the program about this and kind of your take on it, which i think is unique. >> yeah. well, i think there are two scandals going on. there's the scandal of what the white house has done. and, look, we did know this was knowable information in the beginning. the station chief said it was the video. for them, you know, to have said this, they had to know that it was wrong. and if they didn't know
the white house knew, the cia knew. we knew at fox news the next day that it wasn't that, and so it's very curious. so you've got the controversy of the cover-up, and you've got all sorts of problems right now. they're stonewalling, but they can't anymore. what's interesting though to me is hillary rodham clinton, right? why didn't she go on the sunday show? probably was because she was told, okay, we want you to tell this lie? she goes, i don't think so. one of these days i'm going to be done...
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soil with the backing of the cia. a scene of carnage in beirut, april, 1983, killing more than 60 people, including 17 americans. the cia lost several key officers. former u.s. and israeli intelligence say that this man, then a member of the revolutionary guard, helped plan that bombing, as well as the bombing in the barracks at beirut that year and orchestrated by this man inside the united states. >> i was blown -- i was stunned. i was surprised. i couldn't believe it. >> ann suffered 19 broken bones in the embassy bombing. dammarell sued and said the cia helped him defect in 2007 in exchange for iran's nuclear program. >> his value could be quite large because our knowledge was quite small. he could have had a treasure trove of information about revolution guard activities, overseas, domestically, he could have provided happens a good deal of information about the nuclear program. >> reporter: according to the book, agari gave intelligence at natanz and could have given information about a hezbollah operative belie
soil with the backing of the cia. a scene of carnage in beirut, april, 1983, killing more than 60 people, including 17 americans. the cia lost several key officers. former u.s. and israeli intelligence say that this man, then a member of the revolutionary guard, helped plan that bombing, as well as the bombing in the barracks at beirut that year and orchestrated by this man inside the united states. >> i was blown -- i was stunned. i was surprised. i couldn't believe it. >> ann...
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do we know when the cia actually stopped? >> what we know from the cia is when john brandon made the decision, he made the decision in august of 2013, 8 months after those public health deans wrote a letter to president obama urging an end to this practice. >> if they haven't been doing it for a year and a half and we are still having workers killed, it suggests it has become part of the fabric of pakistani conspiracy theories? even before this broke about the cia using a doctor as a covert operative, they planted, nurtured, and exploited rumors about western backed health projects, that these are sterilization campaigns, tools of spy craft and added a whole a year there. >> the cia was playing into a potentially big problem. >> some parents are declined to have their children vaccinated so they don't look like they're going along with a western plot against the country. >> was this massive incompetence? >> somebody at langley had their hollywood thinking cap on which is a great phrase for dissecting what was going on here. i
do we know when the cia actually stopped? >> what we know from the cia is when john brandon made the decision, he made the decision in august of 2013, 8 months after those public health deans wrote a letter to president obama urging an end to this practice. >> if they haven't been doing it for a year and a half and we are still having workers killed, it suggests it has become part of the fabric of pakistani conspiracy theories? even before this broke about the cia using a doctor as...
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i'm not talking about the cia talking points. i'm talking about the talking points used on that program that day, which were monumentally misleading and/or and have since been shown to be false and based on no intelligence of any consequence that we know of. >> my answer to that is, no, there wasn't a conspiracy. they didn't have turned out to be accurate. >> how did it happen? >> i think that people made -- at the time their best guess at the facts. >> where did the idea that the video had anything to do with benghazi come from? >> where did it come from? >> yeah. >> i think it wam from people who weren't sure about tshg but i would not say -- >> can you identify -- can you identify any cia information? can you identify -- >> ben talks about the movie five times in this memo. >> my view is having been around at the time that this was not deliberately misleading. it turned out to be wrong, but it was not deliberately misleading. >> on that, we're going to take a break. we'll see you all a little later. i don't think we're going t
i'm not talking about the cia talking points. i'm talking about the talking points used on that program that day, which were monumentally misleading and/or and have since been shown to be false and based on no intelligence of any consequence that we know of. >> my answer to that is, no, there wasn't a conspiracy. they didn't have turned out to be accurate. >> how did it happen? >> i think that people made -- at the time their best guess at the facts. >> where did the...
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about 60 people including the cia station chief. we've got the author of a brand-new book, "the life and death of ames" is coming into "the situation room." he's got some explosive new allegations. i think you're going to be interested. if you watch homeland. >> of course. >> then you'll love this. >> tuning in in seven minutes. mr. blitzer, good to see you. >>> coming up, the first lady angry at those who want to skip her school lunches. that's next. hey, razor. check this out. listen up, thunder dragons, it's time to get a hotel. we can save big on killer hotels with priceline express deals. somewhere with a fitness center? hey you know what man, these guys aint no dragons. they're cool. these deals are legit. yeah, we're cool. she's cool. we're cool. i'm cool. hey, isn't that razor's old lady? not anymore. priceline savings without the bidding. trwith secure wifie for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why
about 60 people including the cia station chief. we've got the author of a brand-new book, "the life and death of ames" is coming into "the situation room." he's got some explosive new allegations. i think you're going to be interested. if you watch homeland. >> of course. >> then you'll love this. >> tuning in in seven minutes. mr. blitzer, good to see you. >>> coming up, the first lady angry at those who want to skip her school lunches. that's...
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>> that is exactly the information the cia is struggling to keep secret. i would say that is a legitimate point. obviously, these individuals, if their identity were disclosed, they would become targets and could be killed. that is a legitimate point that the cia should keep that information secret, but with these three individuals who are dead, there's really no justification for other than keeping the entire program secret. that is also really pointless. it is understood that any military situation it anytime there is warfare and prisoners are released, there's an effort to return some of them into -- there's an effort to turn some of them into assets. >> how does this story tied to the intelligence report that has not yet been released? >> right in the middle of it, i think. we know the cia was pushing back aggressively against the investigation the committee was conducting. we know one of the areas they pushed back most aggressively was exactly this program designed to turn prisoners. --y said it was to them they said it was too sensitive. i think one
>> that is exactly the information the cia is struggling to keep secret. i would say that is a legitimate point. obviously, these individuals, if their identity were disclosed, they would become targets and could be killed. that is a legitimate point that the cia should keep that information secret, but with these three individuals who are dead, there's really no justification for other than keeping the entire program secret. that is also really pointless. it is understood that any...
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. >> no, because the cia had never talked about the video. >> well, what the sea cia said that the protests were based on protests in cairo which is what the ambassador said. those protests in cairo were inspired by the video. and that's exactly what the ambassador said. that's exactly what the intelligence committee community believed at the tile. that's what general petraeus briefed us on. that's what was thought at that time. so you can take issue with what the intelligence community did. there is nothing that contradicts that in the rhodes memo. >> jay carney says the same thing you heard from adam schiff senator ayotte which is this memo which does mention benghazi and talks about americans being harmed is not about benghazi. take a look. >> i can say again and again, and i know you can keep asking again and again, this document was not about benghazi. >> senator ayotte, do you buy that? >> chris, it does pass the laugh test. here's the problem, the cia testified before the house intelligence committee that, in fact, they did not put a connection between the attack and the video and, i
. >> no, because the cia had never talked about the video. >> well, what the sea cia said that the protests were based on protests in cairo which is what the ambassador said. those protests in cairo were inspired by the video. and that's exactly what the ambassador said. that's exactly what the intelligence committee community believed at the tile. that's what general petraeus briefed us on. that's what was thought at that time. so you can take issue with what the intelligence...
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14th is the day you're talking about. >> yes. >> according to the e-mails and the time line, the cia circulates new talking points after they've removed the mention of al qaeda and then at 6:21 the white house, you, add a line about the administration warning about september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? >> i believe so. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this was two years ago. we're still talking about the most mundane thing. >> dude, it's what everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. your producers edit scripts multiple times. >> attacks to demonstrations, did you do that? >> no. what is the question? did i edit -- >> in the cia talking points, it was edited from attacks to demonstrations. >> no. michael morell testified about what he change and what was changed in those e-mails. in the whole process of that. >> but the talking points went through the public
14th is the day you're talking about. >> yes. >> according to the e-mails and the time line, the cia circulates new talking points after they've removed the mention of al qaeda and then at 6:21 the white house, you, add a line about the administration warning about september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? >> i believe so. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember....
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did not come from the cia. so those are the facts. >> what you just said actually was misleading. what the cia wrote is it came from protests in cairo, everybody knows that protests in cairo were triggered by the video. >> next question, next question -- >> hang on, hang on a second. >> crew -- >> next logical question. >> yes or know, guys. >> lanny, stop with your aggressivee himry crap because it's not going to work here. >> is that your answer -- >> the next question -- >> sean -- >> lanny, the next logical question is this, you have people on the ground, people that were eyewitnesss, congress has not had access to them. there is videotapes what happened that night, lamb watched them in realtime, so why would you talk to the people in langly and not talk to the people witnesses to who occurred why was congress denied access to those people? >> i think there were mistakes made and judge thes wrong that have proven to be correct. everybody says that. >> you're interrupting. the argument is was there a potenti
did not come from the cia. so those are the facts. >> what you just said actually was misleading. what the cia wrote is it came from protests in cairo, everybody knows that protests in cairo were triggered by the video. >> next question, next question -- >> hang on, hang on a second. >> crew -- >> next logical question. >> yes or know, guys. >> lanny, stop with your aggressivee himry crap because it's not going to work here. >> is that your answer...
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the cia wrote the words spontaneous demonstration. the republicans have attributed that to the white house. >> that's not fair. that's not clear and that's not true. what the cia said was spontaneous demonstration. specifically that the video story did not have anything to do with the cia. we did not provide that information. hillary clinton said that, said that on the evening of september 11th before there was ever any mention -- >> you're not the host. get over it. >> she said that. >> i have a question. excuse me, gentlemen. i have a question for steve. as it relates to point about it being a spontaneous demonstration -- >> that was wrong. >> i'm asking a question. i know you're obsessed with the clintons and you can't control yourself. calm down. >> i think you're obsessed with interrupting. >> you can't handle the truth. you're afraid this is going to effect her presidential run. >> i'm not going to allow you to talk over me. >> did you ever hear of a case of spontaneous demonstration where rpgs are in the back pocket and they ha
the cia wrote the words spontaneous demonstration. the republicans have attributed that to the white house. >> that's not fair. that's not clear and that's not true. what the cia said was spontaneous demonstration. specifically that the video story did not have anything to do with the cia. we did not provide that information. hillary clinton said that, said that on the evening of september 11th before there was ever any mention -- >> you're not the host. get over it. >> she...
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and they've been saying it all came from the cia. we now know that the cia had to alter the talking points under heavy pressure from the white house and from the state department. but also this is the smoking gun. this is the memo that exposes the direct white house intervention. the prep call. she was prepped. there was a call. there was an explanation. and the emphasis entirely is on a protest that did not happen in benghazi on the demonstration that didn't happen in benghazi, that became this attack. and the fact that they pushed this and they had rice say it and when we had gregory hicks, who was number two in libya say in testimony that his jaw dropped when he heard this, that was the first electric moment. this is the second electric moment. >> not only gregory hicks, but the former director of the cia says when he understood susan rice, they had nothing to do with the video. >> they're making a major distinction between the set of talking points which the intelligence community provided and heavily edited after input from the
and they've been saying it all came from the cia. we now know that the cia had to alter the talking points under heavy pressure from the white house and from the state department. but also this is the smoking gun. this is the memo that exposes the direct white house intervention. the prep call. she was prepped. there was a call. there was an explanation. and the emphasis entirely is on a protest that did not happen in benghazi on the demonstration that didn't happen in benghazi, that became...
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i read the 13 versions of the talking points beginning with version one that the cia said it drafted that was circulated and went back and forth over 13 different versions. >> i did, too. >> one sentence never changed in all 13 versions, fact, the cia wrote the words this was a spontaneous demonstration, that's their phrase, and then it ended with triggered by cairo protest. fact, that was written by the cia, was not invented by the obama white house or the state department or ambassador rice. if there was a mistake, and there was a mistake made in the intelligence assessment about this being a spontaneous demonstration, we now know that was wrong. >> here is the problem, here is the problem with your -- >> it is not a lie. >> here is the problem with your spin -- >> mistake and lie. >> the station, to get to that point that you're talking about, they ignored the stations chief. the people on the ground in libya and they decided to write it out of virginia and on top of that, we have the november 28th, -- i have tape of jay carney saying, no, no, the only change we made was from the
i read the 13 versions of the talking points beginning with version one that the cia said it drafted that was circulated and went back and forth over 13 different versions. >> i did, too. >> one sentence never changed in all 13 versions, fact, the cia wrote the words this was a spontaneous demonstration, that's their phrase, and then it ended with triggered by cairo protest. fact, that was written by the cia, was not invented by the obama white house or the state department or...
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the cia today that the argument that everyone knew his i.d. is a bogus one but there might have been people, we don't know for sure. changed. >> he's not going to be able to be out in the field anymore. he will be out at langley. >> when a president goes on a secret trip to a war zone, there's very few people who know about the trip, so maybe the regular checks and balances that you would have were not necessarily in place because they had a limited number of people who were working on it. >> you don't need the complicated eric bolling family tree to go back generations to find out what happened and whose to blame because so few people know. sooner or later it's going to be -- we know that going back to ireland and italy, richard armitage and scooter libby will eventually take the blame for this. for some people think this was no big deal, if you take a desk job agent in relation to a story that exists in 2001, if you say this is no big deal, then my goodness, you need a lot of apologies to a lot of people and a lot of money put back into the
the cia today that the argument that everyone knew his i.d. is a bogus one but there might have been people, we don't know for sure. changed. >> he's not going to be able to be out in the field anymore. he will be out at langley. >> when a president goes on a secret trip to a war zone, there's very few people who know about the trip, so maybe the regular checks and balances that you would have were not necessarily in place because they had a limited number of people who were working...
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valerie plame left the cia. this guy is going to be put out into past tur into management. >> reporter: no comment from the government about the status of the station chief, whether he's being recalled or reassigned. the administration has sent the message on and off the record that concerns for this official's safety are getting the highest priority. it treated as a serious mistake. wolf? >> joe, thanks very much. valerie plame, the former cia officer, the author of "blow back" here in the situation rwih us now. when you heard the name of the cia station chief was disclosed, what went through your mind? >> well, it was colossally stupid, of course, what an error of huge proportions with tremendous consequences. but no way is it equivalent to what happened to me. >> why is that? >> it's a false equivalency put out there. it all comes down to intent. what happened with me, my name was intended to be leaked in retaliation against my husband, who was a fierce critic of the bush administration and the iraq war. >> w
valerie plame left the cia. this guy is going to be put out into past tur into management. >> reporter: no comment from the government about the status of the station chief, whether he's being recalled or reassigned. the administration has sent the message on and off the record that concerns for this official's safety are getting the highest priority. it treated as a serious mistake. wolf? >> joe, thanks very much. valerie plame, the former cia officer, the author of "blow...
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the military, the cia. the cia station chief and state department. all of them. and the va scandal continues to grow we'll have an interview with the florida governor. va hospitals have blocked inspectors from coming inside. >> politics now. president obama facing dismal approval numbers and slim support for the health care law and bruising military election and a long list of foreign policy problems. and an interesting editorial caught our news. writing for clear politics. larry said "obama is what abraham lincoln called using steam boat lingo, as a dead point. weak abroad and frustrated and home and looking at a brutal november." we havero talk show host and contributors. the comparison is that the obama administration is essentially dead in the water and not going anywhere. captain policies are mired in a lack of support, do you agree? >> no, no. we are always trying a way to end the president inted of a mend it. it is not the beggest problem they v. it is a biparsis an. and you know that a ca and obama care was romney care and hilary and comes out of the heri
the military, the cia. the cia station chief and state department. all of them. and the va scandal continues to grow we'll have an interview with the florida governor. va hospitals have blocked inspectors from coming inside. >> politics now. president obama facing dismal approval numbers and slim support for the health care law and bruising military election and a long list of foreign policy problems. and an interesting editorial caught our news. writing for clear politics. larry said...
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cia -- they used some of the cia talking points, cia said they did not. so clearly you have to take one or the other. i'm going to rely on what the cia said about it. so that talking point did not get in there from the cia more than likely. second, the information you have now is sthe commander of afrr i con saying they could have gotten there, they're not sure. they should have tried. but the one thing that strikes me is both president obama and hillary clinton met the families of the four at the air force base and still at that point, which was after susan rice if i'm not mistaken brought up the issue about the video, this gets back to greg gut feld's age-old question, there is yet to be a single bit of information that where the video came from and who put it into the process. >> we haven't gotten more on that. one of the questions i asked today was, why if i went back and checked the record on 9/12, the day after the terror attack, jay carney himself was asked about -- i want to be clear, the specific question i'm losing. who was behind this or who in
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or are they just saying the cia? >> they're saying the cia had nothing to do with it. i pressed them on if other agencies have done this. i haven't gotten an answer yet. i'm working with them throughout the day to get some of these answers to these questions. they're saying right now that they had no role in this. >> we'll speak to the author of this book. we'll speak to others, including a lawyer representing families later in "the situation room." so we'll go in-depth on this story later today. lots of families potentially going to be very, very upset. >> right. >> about this. brian, thanks very much. >>> that's it for me. see you at 5:00 p.m. in "the situation room." newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> here we go. top of the hour, great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin. let's begin with news just in at cnn. have you heard about the explosive allegations being leveled against the nfl by some of its former players? well-known names. you know about the concussion claims. we have covered that here on cnn extensively. but a new lawsuit alleges that nfl t
or are they just saying the cia? >> they're saying the cia had nothing to do with it. i pressed them on if other agencies have done this. i haven't gotten an answer yet. i'm working with them throughout the day to get some of these answers to these questions. they're saying right now that they had no role in this. >> we'll speak to the author of this book. we'll speak to others, including a lawyer representing families later in "the situation room." so we'll go in-depth on...
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were prepared by the cia. and in this case, overall issue of unrest in the muslim world. >> so then, why did the white house hold back this e-mail, a document that was originally classified before being released to congress, but in retkapbgted form, to protect the author and recipients if there were always two sets of talking points, why was it released at all, if it did not pertain to benghazi because that was the specific request by the frie freedom of information asserted by. >> you dishial watch, jay -- judicial watch, jay carney was asked and would not answer. >> why were you holding back this information, why was it not turned over to congress, this is relevant, why did you hold it back. >> john, again. >> why did it take a court case to release this. >> john, i can say again and again, i know, you can keep asking, this document was not about benghazi. >> it was prep if sunday show. >> it was not her only prep, john, she relied on her for her answers on benghazi on document repaired by the cia. as did me
were prepared by the cia. and in this case, overall issue of unrest in the muslim world. >> so then, why did the white house hold back this e-mail, a document that was originally classified before being released to congress, but in retkapbgted form, to protect the author and recipients if there were always two sets of talking points, why was it released at all, if it did not pertain to benghazi because that was the specific request by the frie freedom of information asserted by. >>...
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the administration blamed the cia talking points for the administration. he testified he was surprised when rice made the m connection. >> when she talked about the video my reaction is that's not something the analysts attributed to the attacks. >> the skipt sichl came to a head with the exchange of abc ex news. >> why do you think a court casi for the release. >> i know you can keep asking about this. she relied on for her answers on benghazi on documents repaired by the cia. >> theme frustration on capitol hill the u.s. put people on the ground in libya never reported a protest or a video. >> this is a hospital action. this was no that has gone terribly awry. >> in new congressional imon testimonies a retired brigadier general isn't easy to identify. >> we felt -- >> what was over looked is on the night of the attack mr. clinton spoke to the president. he sent out a press release se before the attack was over directly linking to the benghazn violence to the video. national security spokesman tommy srieder where that information came from. >> september 1
the administration blamed the cia talking points for the administration. he testified he was surprised when rice made the m connection. >> when she talked about the video my reaction is that's not something the analysts attributed to the attacks. >> the skipt sichl came to a head with the exchange of abc ex news. >> why do you think a court casi for the release. >> i know you can keep asking about this. she relied on for her answers on benghazi on documents repaired by...
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document prepared by the cia. as did members of congress. >> reporter: the frustration on capitol hill has been building for more than a year and a half. where did the individual explanation really come from giving u.s. personnel on the ground in libya never reported a protest or video. >> this is a demonstration gone awry. >> reporter: a retired general who was monitoring events that night said an al-qaeda-linked group was immediately identified. >> we felt it was all sharia. >> reporter: what has been overlooked was that the president spoke with hillary clinton. he sent out a press release, bret baier asked the council spokesperson where that information came from? >> september 11th, who tells hillary clinton at 10:00 p.m. to put out that statement to justify the vicious behavior. the announcement already happened about the benghazi attack. as a response to material posted on the internet. at 10:00 p.m. eastern time this is still going on, where does that come from? >> i don't know. >> did you also change the at
document prepared by the cia. as did members of congress. >> reporter: the frustration on capitol hill has been building for more than a year and a half. where did the individual explanation really come from giving u.s. personnel on the ground in libya never reported a protest or video. >> this is a demonstration gone awry. >> reporter: a retired general who was monitoring events that night said an al-qaeda-linked group was immediately identified. >> we felt it was all...
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we know jeff acting cia director at the time informed the white house before susan rice went on the cia station chief on the ground descented from the protesting. there is a document, there is one other document that we do not have or a series of documents that we do not have that can get answers for this, which is let's get the presidential daily briefs for that week after the benghazi attack. president bush after 9/11 showed the cia warned ben laden was planning to attack america. why doesn't to release the brief that will tell us exactly what the intelligence community told him about the pro -- whether there was a protest, how high a level of conference they had in that and whether there were descenting views and when they told him that. >> as for the spin that's in this document where the white house is telling people it's all about the video, the white house today seems to be saying i'm telling you even though there are references to benghazi, that was guidance about the protest in general in the middle east despite the fact it was about susan rice's appearance on five sunday talk
we know jeff acting cia director at the time informed the white house before susan rice went on the cia station chief on the ground descented from the protesting. there is a document, there is one other document that we do not have or a series of documents that we do not have that can get answers for this, which is let's get the presidential daily briefs for that week after the benghazi attack. president bush after 9/11 showed the cia warned ben laden was planning to attack america. why doesn't...
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from the outing of the cia station chief. joining us a bob baer and jeremy. both of these guys know a lot about this subject. so what do you make of this, jeremy, this outing of the cia station chief. is it a big deal as far as national security is concerned? >> wolf, it was clearly a mistake. it was pretty sloppy. it was one of those makes you wince moments. but look, i think the agency is probably taking steps right now to figure out what this means. as you heard from deputy national security adviser tony blinken, the counsel will look at why this happened. >> i think maybe some criminal action. is there any suspicion, as far as you know, that somebody may have broken a law? >> i don't think we know that yet. i think it's too early to know what happened, under what circumstances was the name revealed. look, this is serious and it's why the white house quickly corrected the mistake and why they want to figure out how to not make it again. >> bob -- is there a difference and i suspect there is, between the outing of valerie p
from the outing of the cia station chief. joining us a bob baer and jeremy. both of these guys know a lot about this subject. so what do you make of this, jeremy, this outing of the cia station chief. is it a big deal as far as national security is concerned? >> wolf, it was clearly a mistake. it was pretty sloppy. it was one of those makes you wince moments. but look, i think the agency is probably taking steps right now to figure out what this means. as you heard from deputy national...
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>> the military, the cia, the cia station chief, the state department, all of them, the facts, mr. chairman, the facts do not point to a video. that only comes from the white house. what was going on in the room, general? our people are under attack. there are people dying. what is the military doing? >> last words. 55 days after malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared families are hearing for first time what could be the final transmissions from the cockpit. >> 1-2-0, good night. >> good night, malaysia 370. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the heavy rain has finally stopped but the relentless downpour left behind a path of destruction. record flooding and sinkholes from the panhandle to the mid-atlantic states. crews used boats to rescue trapped riders who took refuge on top of a city bus. >>> in baltimore, the water swpt away a road dumping cars on pt railroad tracks below. >>> in pensacola, flooding may have caused a gas explosion that caused a jail to collapse killing to two inmates overnight. gabe gutierrez is outside the jail and joins me now. gabe, there's
>> the military, the cia, the cia station chief, the state department, all of them, the facts, mr. chairman, the facts do not point to a video. that only comes from the white house. what was going on in the room, general? our people are under attack. there are people dying. what is the military doing? >> last words. 55 days after malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared families are hearing for first time what could be the final transmissions from the cockpit. >> 1-2-0, good...
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, and here we have the cia director saying the cia thought the video might be part of it that was a theory and it was spontaneous. >> what i took his -- that clip you played to mean was that they were musing because i can tell you september 12th, the state department sent ant e-mail, beth jones, according to the libyan ambassador, think was ansar al sharia. mike morrell testified before a house committee, he was shocked susan rice mentioned the video because none of their intelligence connected the video. you are have three options, preplanned premeditated, it was a spontaneous uprising or you have that it was linked to the video. morrell will tell you there's no evidence linging it to the video and he was shocked rice said that not the day after benghazi but five days after benghazi, where morell would defend himself, he would say there's evidence it was a spontaneous uprising as opposed to preplanned and premeditated in which case i would say, great, call your first witness. every ingle change that mike made was calculated to cast the administration into a more favorable light. >> he sai
, and here we have the cia director saying the cia thought the video might be part of it that was a theory and it was spontaneous. >> what i took his -- that clip you played to mean was that they were musing because i can tell you september 12th, the state department sent ant e-mail, beth jones, according to the libyan ambassador, think was ansar al sharia. mike morrell testified before a house committee, he was shocked susan rice mentioned the video because none of their intelligence...
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the cia. you toad there at the podium time after time and said she was referring to talking points created by the cia. now we see a document that comes from the white house, not the cia, attributing the protests to the video and the former director of the cia saying that's not something this analysts were attributed to. >> that document was about the overall environment in the muslim world. bill: michael, good morning to you. we have these emails which for many showing what was napping the white house in the days after benghazi. how do you see that story changing once we have seen this. >> let many keep in mind the talking points. the questions were, who in the federal government was pushing this idea that a youtube video that was anti-islam was the cause of the attack and why were they doing it? what these emails show is confirming what we already know. that viewpoint that was coming from the white house, been rhodes was a national security advisor. the reason why is laid out in the email. th
the cia. you toad there at the podium time after time and said she was referring to talking points created by the cia. now we see a document that comes from the white house, not the cia, attributing the protests to the video and the former director of the cia saying that's not something this analysts were attributed to. >> that document was about the overall environment in the muslim world. bill: michael, good morning to you. we have these emails which for many showing what was napping...
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they show that the white house and not just the cia know acting director mike morel took part in the alteration but the white house, highest levels in the white house altered those talking points to remove references to al-qaeda, to it being a terrorist attack and for the crass political purpose of shielding a presidential campaign. >> many of your former colleagues in the cia where you work, i am curious of how they reacted to the fact they were scrape goated through the whole process and it was their fault and they changed the talking points and they said don't send anyone in and change the security, i have to think that there are people deep in the agency who are utterly frustrated and angry they are blamed for things over which they had no control. could you speak to that and tell me is that an accurate assess am? >> i have been out of the cia for many years, i would expect many good and patriotic people serving there that are frustrated by what happened in libya and in benghazi. i would have to say in in addition to the talking points which the cia participated, think about the
they show that the white house and not just the cia know acting director mike morel took part in the alteration but the white house, highest levels in the white house altered those talking points to remove references to al-qaeda, to it being a terrorist attack and for the crass political purpose of shielding a presidential campaign. >> many of your former colleagues in the cia where you work, i am curious of how they reacted to the fact they were scrape goated through the whole process...
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on one hand, you have the cia, the u.s. government looking at their strategic objectives of catching bin laden, and on the other hand you have the taliban whose agenda is basically to destroy pakistan, to spread terror in any way they can. and the tragedy is, neither side seems to care at all about the pakistani people who are caught in the middle. so now the u.s. has osama bin laden but the fact is, in the three years after that raid, we have a polio outbreak in pakistan and extremist groups have been able to increase the number of attacks. the casualties -- pakistan is now the number one country in the number of terrorist attacks anywhere in the world, more than iraq and afghanistan. the question becomes, for americans, what has the war on terror really accomplished? not only do you have these extremist groups able to expand their areas of operation, but now you have a huge public health crisis in pakistan. i think dr. zulfiqar bhutta gave a really great insight on how pakistan does not have the resources to contain both
on one hand, you have the cia, the u.s. government looking at their strategic objectives of catching bin laden, and on the other hand you have the taliban whose agenda is basically to destroy pakistan, to spread terror in any way they can. and the tragedy is, neither side seems to care at all about the pakistani people who are caught in the middle. so now the u.s. has osama bin laden but the fact is, in the three years after that raid, we have a polio outbreak in pakistan and extremist groups...
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cia, the national security council have an obligation to tell the truth. and they have not done this to this time. >> i think it is hard to boycott something where four americans have died, you have an ambassador killed asked for more backup and support. even moving forward, how do we prevent this from happening in the future? i think it's going to be tougher for democrats. >> hard to do. though george's point about it being transparent as a matter of raw politics is true. to that point, one of the things that democrats and many others are concerned about is the notion this will be a transparently political exercise. and it will run on forever. so is there a way in which the select committee's duration could be limited so that you wouldn't be looking at the potential of an ongoing investigation that would go out all the way through the end of the 2016 campaign and
cia, the national security council have an obligation to tell the truth. and they have not done this to this time. >> i think it is hard to boycott something where four americans have died, you have an ambassador killed asked for more backup and support. even moving forward, how do we prevent this from happening in the future? i think it's going to be tougher for democrats. >> hard to do. though george's point about it being transparent as a matter of raw politics is true. to that...
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of the cia doing this? why is the deputy director able to overrule him? why is the white house working with him on this effort to massively overhaul those talking points? i think there are a lot of unexplained things that we still need to know answers to. >> we both live in washington. if there are four unsolved murders in georgetown right now from september 11th, 2012 it would still be front page news at the washington post and other places. >> yeah, i think. >> this is not front page news. >> i would say regardless of the spin from the opinion blogs that get picked up and they're trying to counter this story because their surrogates are representing those they feel are being accused, despite that spin, a neutral look at this story will look at it as a very important story in history. when it's looked back upon and the journalist -- those of us that didn't cover it as aggressively as i think we should have won't be viewed kindly in a neutral view of history down the road. >> does the administration know wh
of the cia doing this? why is the deputy director able to overrule him? why is the white house working with him on this effort to massively overhaul those talking points? i think there are a lot of unexplained things that we still need to know answers to. >> we both live in washington. if there are four unsolved murders in georgetown right now from september 11th, 2012 it would still be front page news at the washington post and other places. >> yeah, i think. >> this is not...
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it did not come from the cia. now we see a
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come from the cia. now we see a document that comes from the white house not the cia attributing the protest to the video. >> the fact that there were protests around the region, threatening our embassies, it was entirely appropriate to have question and answer document prepared for the video it was based on what we knew at the time. >> why were you holding back this information? why was the email not turned over to the congress? why was it not released when you released all the other emalsz? this is directly relevant? why did you hold it back? >> this document was not about benghazi. >> it was a prep for sunday shows. >> it wasn't her only prep, john. >> you said at the podium last year that the white house and the state department only changed one word. we now know, obviously we know for some time that is not true. can you correct the record on that. >> when it comes to correcting records, you know, we can get into that. i am happy to recite and for as long as you like. >> okay. we just saw it but wha
come from the cia. now we see a document that comes from the white house not the cia attributing the protest to the video. >> the fact that there were protests around the region, threatening our embassies, it was entirely appropriate to have question and answer document prepared for the video it was based on what we knew at the time. >> why were you holding back this information? why was the email not turned over to the congress? why was it not released when you released all the...
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cia and it resulted in the cia and the government talking about indicting us for possession of classified documents. these were public things, distributed all over the world, nothing private about them any longer. and the seized them aclu took up the case, and over a period of a year, we got the documents back and they dropped all talk of prosecuting us, which had been ridiculous to begin with, and settled out of court for $16,000 in damages. >> and yet it is interesting how the boston globe played it in march of 19 -- >> 1982, i think. quicker march of 1982. it says i'm a "the justice department has dropped plans to prosecute a freelance journalist for possession of purported copies of secret american documents stolen during the occupation of the us embassy in .ran sources said the decision to return the papers and in the criminal investigation was based on an unwillingness by government agencies to confirm the documents authenticity. privately officials say the documents release was a serious intelligence breach and all really it says u.s. customs agents seized the government -- documen
cia and it resulted in the cia and the government talking about indicting us for possession of classified documents. these were public things, distributed all over the world, nothing private about them any longer. and the seized them aclu took up the case, and over a period of a year, we got the documents back and they dropped all talk of prosecuting us, which had been ridiculous to begin with, and settled out of court for $16,000 in damages. >> and yet it is interesting how the boston...
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how are you then working for the cia? >> it is the same way if you want to go fight in the war in iraq or afghanistan or go be part of the drone program in somalia, you can go and work for the u.s. government and be a government employee but the more easier and certainly the more lucrative way is to go work for like water or corporations that have -- like water or corporations that have connections. this is a vital part of the story. so much of what we consider to be military functions are now in the hands of the private sector. i think this 75% of the nsa budget is money that goes directly into the coffers of private corporations. we hear all the stuff about how everything is so well controlled, transparency, oversight. none of these mechanisms of controls apply to the private sector that are running the vast bulk of the nsa. despite being a private enclave of private corporation had access to these systems -- nsa systems. aboutnn greenwald, talk why edward snowden leads dell, what he feels he can to there, and ends up t
how are you then working for the cia? >> it is the same way if you want to go fight in the war in iraq or afghanistan or go be part of the drone program in somalia, you can go and work for the u.s. government and be a government employee but the more easier and certainly the more lucrative way is to go work for like water or corporations that have -- like water or corporations that have connections. this is a vital part of the story. so much of what we consider to be military functions...
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ayatollah khomeini was on the payroll of the cia at the time in 1953. a young student only too happy to support the demonstrations that led to the overthrow of the government. that's what you get involved with. >> host: why? >> guest: why did he? >> host: ey. why was he involved. >> guest: i don't know there's any evidence on his motives. he may have wanted the money. all these people were paid to demonstrate. the cia and the british and mi5 organized the demonstrations. >> host: why do you have trouble with the term "state forked." >> guest: because it seems to distance the government from actions that in fact it is responsible for. it seems as though the government, by sponsoring it, is not actually doing it. that is all we really mean by that. for instance, the question of, let's take rendition, which is a post-9/11 and patriot act condition that allows us to, as i'm sure you know, send captured insurgents to places to be tortured for information because we're not allowed to do it in this country. now, i think that's part of the situation of terroris
ayatollah khomeini was on the payroll of the cia at the time in 1953. a young student only too happy to support the demonstrations that led to the overthrow of the government. that's what you get involved with. >> host: why? >> guest: why did he? >> host: ey. why was he involved. >> guest: i don't know there's any evidence on his motives. he may have wanted the money. all these people were paid to demonstrate. the cia and the british and mi5 organized the demonstrations....